Gun BuyBack in Cobb County, GA: Contact these officials!

[RichardInFlorida]

Unfortunately that Kennesaw ordnance passed without any penalty clause. You have never had to own guns there...

Actually, IIRC, Sec. 1-11, the General Penalty section of the city ordinances, provided for a penalty of up to $1000, imprisonment of up to 6 months, 60 days labor with the Public Works and Streets Department, or some combination of the above. Sec 34-1, which required gun (and ammunition!) ownership did not have a separate penalty set out for it and would fall under Sec. 1-11.

As an interesting aside, on more than one occasion one of my officers or I would arrest someone who would mention they were told by other cons to stay out of "The 'Saw" because everyone had a gun.

 

[jmr40]

Saw on the 11 o'clock news where the program was sponsored by a church. 11 guns were turned in and judging from what was shown on the news most looked un-useable.

I sold an old RG .22 that was un-usable a few years ago at a local buy back for $50. My brother and I both took cash and hung around outside to check out what was being brought in. No one told us to leave and we saw nothing worth buying.

 

[ExSoldier]

You guys are all missing the problem with these buy-back programs!

#1 It actually increases crime in the area or at least provides a form of legal cover. One of the prerequisites for such a program is to assure the "criminals" that there will be no penalty or check in the transaction.

So why not pull a few heists or heck maybe knock off a competitor or two, maybe some local gang members on your turf THEN turn the evidence of the crime over to the cops who will make sure that evidence is either melted down or dumped in a very deep part of the Atlantic? Then you can take the legal revenue you made from the cops and buy some newer and "cleaner" street guns where you got the old ones?

#2 These buy-back programs are the forerunners of paid Confidential Informant programs at the mom & pop level.

We managed to get "assault weapons" banned but everybody knows somebody who's got one and you know, may not even realize they're in possession of deadly hardware. For $100 we can guarantee that your grandson will stay safe and not be arrested. We only want the gun. DO THE RIGHT THING!

I promise you that at first that is exactly what will happen, the guns will be taken with no action taken, except that instead of not keeping records, this time copious records will be kept for future use of both the informant and the one in possession. Later on, when "no knock" midnight searches become common, the former CI's will be blackmailed into giving up more names and the former possessors will be rounded up as possible "insurgents."

Think it's a fairy tale? Look at history (which I have taught for 19 years). This is world history from 1936 to the present.

We're just a little bit slow catching up. Don't let the wonderful results in Heller fool you, when a real TYRANT grabs power the USSC won't matter.

 

[charlie505]

"How can the BUY_BACK something they never owned in the first place?" - quote from the Boston Tea Party


My grandfather who always told me - "When they come for your guns, give them the ones that dont work."

He once handed out junk parts to people to turn in for money at one buy-back. The line was around the block.

 

[Gerald in Ga]

If she wants to raise awareness, that is a good way to do it. Have a gun buy back so the bad guys know that the citizens have no protection.
The public will be really aware when the front doors start getting kicked in at 3:00 AM.

OH thats right, call the police. They'll save you.

 

[3rd Generation American]

This is the best way to use those Raven's on the bottom of your safe, if they would give me 50.00 for a POS like that I'm in!

 

[Tom Servo]

For those not from these parts, Austell and Kennesaw are about as similar as Fallujah and Mayberry.

As others have pointed out, criminals aren't the ones turning in their guns. The guns being turned in are the ones left in the attic by deceased relatives and such. Few are in workable condition. Chances are, we've lost a few vintage 1911s, Lugers, and nice revolvers because people who didn't know what they had turned them in for a $25.00 debit card.